Friday, 9 December 2016

Where does the time go? November has gone and lots of blocks have come in for this months

Siblings Together 2 Quilt.

It is not sewn together as yet, just laid on the guest-room bed and every time I go in there I change them around. Looking at this picture that blue one with the bulls eye will have to move.. :0)

Christmas is just around the corner, so I have been having a little play at making just a few homemade cards.

Fabric ironed on card with Bondaweb and a few buttons stuck on. Fun to make.

My good friends Maggie, Ann and I did a lovely course at my favourite fabric shop,

Sew and So's of Bungay, with our favourite teacher Lynne Edwards OBE.

What a fun day !!!

This is what Lynne was teaching us. It was the most beautiful quilt that she was in the process of making.

I did manage two blocks and finished off another at home, mine will be made into a table runner hopefully. So watch this space..

I did enjoy my holiday but now I have to catch up on my Winter Dresden plate block for the Frolic group.. We dyed all the fabrics before I went away so now it's"thinking cap" time for all things winter..

Any ideas for other segments would be gratefully received, 'cos only 9 more to think of and do !!

Friday, 16 September 2016

Scraps indeed and that is how things are going at the moment. First it was a scrappy bag.

I have never worked this way before.

Iron your scrap pieces onto the sticky side of Stabiliser, and then sew them down. It worked but I am not sure how well it will wear..

Fronton Bag

Back of Bag.

Then it was time to make this months blocks for Siblings Together, so it was more scraps.

They have been posted off to Ireland today, I hope Jude likes them.

Now for the next scrappy episode. My friend Allison was throwing out these lovely scrap strips. and as another friend Liz and I had been discussing what I should choose for my block for the girls to make when I am the Mama for the month.

We had seen a lovely Quilt draped over a sofa in this months Quilt Mania. Although this block is not quite the same, as there was not enough of each fabric to go all-around the centre the essence is there .

So it might be my choice for November.

I need to make it again in some more scraps and then make a decision, so watch this space...

Friday, 8 July 2016

I joined an on-line sewing group called Just Sew.. and this months swap was Mug Rugs. So here are mine and today I have posted them off to the USA to my swap partner. I do hope she likes them.

I was in dire need of a new peg bag, so with some of the scraps left here is my new one. I forgot to take a photo of it before I filled it with pegs so it looks a little misshapen .

That is the sum total of the sewing I have done since my last blog post. I have a pile of mending and alterations to do but the garden has taken over at the moment.

The little arbor where we sit for coffer and afternoon tea is now due a severe hair cut and a tidy up, now that Mrs Pigeon has raised her two babies and they have all left.

This is the third year she has built her nest in the roses above, as much as we try to dissuade her, she is sitting on an egg before we have turned our backs (this year two).

The little bench Mr M made has moved again, this time I hope for good. There was an awkward little triangle between the green house and the fence, where all sorts of junk used to get dumped.Its now another little seating area.. Though where to put the wheelbarrow now..Ha! Ha!..

The mosaic floor is an old table top, the metal legs rotted and fell off..

I love up-cycling and it is looking good. The black pot at the front now has a lovely lavender planted in it..

Well Mr M has just come in with a second large bowl of gooseberries and tells me he is about to pick some blackcurrants so I know what I shall be doing later..

Sunday, 19 June 2016

Things are a little quiet about here on the blog front, I do not know where the time goes too.

If the weather is good Mr M and I can be found in the garden as large portion of fence has blown down and has had to be replaced. So many trips to the dump with all the vegetation that came down with it.

When the weather is not so nice, a little sewing has been done. I joined an on- line group called

Just Sew and joined in their Bag Swap.

It was really strange sewing something for someone you do not know. All I was given was the name and address of the person I had to send my bag to.

The bag had to be made using just two fabrics so this is what I made, for a lady called Janet who lives in Gretna.

As you know, I knit lots of socks and I find this bag very handy for carring my knitting about.

Rough idea of how it was made

Janet put up on Facebooks Just Sew site that she loved it, so I am well pleased.

Now, I am waiting to receive my bag from whom I do not know..Ha Ha !..

The Frolic sewing group to which I belong have now finished the quilt, "The Battle of Sole Bay".. and it is going to the NEC in Birmingham in the group quilt category.

So keep your fingers crossed for us..

Their were just 6 of us this time, and it was fun to make though a bit daunting at first..

Desperately trying to make some summer tops, before the summer is over, but I think I have made this one a little short for me.. So it will be my usual trick to lengthen it so watch this space.:0)

Thursday, 26 May 2016

Not a great deal accomplished since my last post. The garden is having it's tidy up as the spring blooms are almost over, and now the roses are beginning to bloom. I found a nice space for the the little garden bench, it is looking good against the yellow rose Canary Bird.

Though I used it as a prop for the finished baby quilt, for our very first Gt Grandchild.

Also finished is a little cuddle blanket which took me longer to sew him up than it did to knit him.

Wilfred Rabbit..

Both have gone off to Devon to await the arrival.

The knitted cot blanket was not finished so could not be in the parcel, but at long last is getting there, one more round and then the boarder.

The only bit of sewing done is a few more rows on the triangle quilt, although they are not joined on as yet. Just another 13 rows to make. I have not made a large quilt in a long time and I keep thinking shall I make it smaller ? :0) Well watch this space...

Tuesday, 10 May 2016

The weather has been great, so readers of this blog will know where I have been. Yep, in the garden!

Now, you can guess what is coming next. Yep, it's peeing with rain today so I am back in the sewing room.

I had done my May blocks for ST2 before I decamped to the garden..Charlotte is the mama of the month for May, and as our daughter has moved in next door and is also a sewer, I got her to make up a couple of blocks too..
They are 1/4 log cabin blocks and rather fun to make. I am very interested to see how Charlotte puts them together..
Next job is to get them in the post to her.

Mine and my daughters blocks for Charlotte.

This is a newish quilt magazine and I liked the quilt on the cover of last months.

I was thinking, as I have rather a lot of taupes and blues in my stash, this might be the quilt for me.

Some triangles had also been cut out before the nice weather, so today I have started to put them together. All a bit scrappy at the moment but they are looking good.

More triangles to cut out as I need 390 taupes and 390 blues. This hopefully will make a dent in the stash. :0))

Now, I thought I should tell you what Mr M has been up too while I have been slaving away in the garden.

When we emptied the furniture out of our holiday cottage, we could not even give the two little single beds away, so they ended up in our wood pile.

Every time I passed them, I thought they looked too good to chop up for fire wood.

2 bed ends from one bed.

added sides.

Now a seat

So having trawled the internet, this is what we came up with.

As yet unfinished, (rain has stopped play) and then a nice new coat of chalk paint and possibly a polished seat. I know a nice spot in the garden where I think it will look great.

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About Me

I have been married for 54 years, We have 3 grown up children all married 4 grand children, and one Great Grandchild. 2 dogs a Border Terrier and a Deer Hound.
I am a retired Potter / Art teacher and now spend most of my time Quilting and Designing my own patterns for Stitchery and Appliqué .